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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of sonō.
Pronunciation
Participle
sonitus (feminine sonita, neuter sonitum); first/second-declension participle
- sounded, resounded
- called (out)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
sonitus m (genitive sonitūs); fourth declension
- sound
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sonitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sonitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sonitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sonitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things)
- mere words; empty sound: inanis verborum sonitus